Bicycle-habit



(Nu Modem WHAN.

BICYCLE HABIT.

Patented Jan. 11, 1898.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SARAH A. W'IIAN, OF BROOKLYX, NEW YORK.

BICYCLE-HABIT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 597,133, dated January 1 1, 1898.

Application filed May 1, 1-896.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SARAH A. W HAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented and produced a new and original Bicycle-Habit, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, showing divers views of the same.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view of said habit from the rear; Fig. 2, a view from the rear, showing the skirt unfastened and turned back, the trousers remainingin position; Fig. 3, a view from the rear, showing the skirt unfastened and turned back and the rear part of the trousers portion of said habit turned down. Fig. -l shows a front view of said habit with fastenings at the outer edge of anterior plait to be used optionally.

This invention relates to a new article of manufacture in the nature of abicyele-habit provided with the details of construction hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In Fig. 1, A and A represent the left and right portions, respectively, of the divided skirt attached to the waistband B. Each portion has vertical plaits at both front and rear, a. a a, b b b, a a, a, and b b 1), running vertically from the waistband to the bottom of the skirt. The two portions A and A are connected by a seam at the point e, forming a crotch. The waistband B can be opened at the point (I only. The dotted lines C show the position of the trousers portion inside of the outer envelops A A and permanently attached thereto in front.

In Fig. 2 the ends 6 and e of the waistband 13 are shown un fastened from the point (I, where, however, the inner belt D remains fastened. The flaps E and 111' are thus turned back to right and left, exposing the trousers seat F remaining in position and attached by hooks and eyes to the lower edge of the inner belt D at the pointsf and f. Thus unfastening and turning back the flaps E and E brings the pleats aa a, a (1' (17,1) 1) b, and b I) binto the position shown. The dotted lines C show Serial No. 589.849. (N0 model.)

the position of the trousers enveloped by the skirt, as before.

In Fig. 3 the waistband B is shown unfastoned and turned back right and left, as before. The hooks at g and g on the upper edge or belt of the trousers seat F are shown unfastened from the eye atf and f, and the trousers seat F turned down from its usual position for convenience of toilet. The inner belt D remains fastened at the point (I, as before, thus sustaining the front of the trousers and the skirt in position at the waist of the wearer. The outer beltB and the inner belt I) are sewed together at the points I: and h.

In Fig. 4 the front of the habit is shown. The outer edges of the plaits b b I) and b b b can be fastened together at will at the points z', j, and 7; by hooks and eyes sewed into the ornamental straps G, H, and I whenever it is desired to close the front and convert the divided skirt into an ordinary skirt.

I am made aware of United States Patents Nos. 569,027 and 572,429; but in neither of these patents is shown a bicycle-habit consisting of a pair of trousers inclosed by a skirt entirely divided, so as to be open front and back, and also having an inner belt at the waist for holding the garment on the wearer when a portion of it is loosened.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- A bicycle-habit, consisting of a skirt comprising a body opened at the rear and leg portions, and trousers within the skirt, each leg of the trousers completely enveloped by a portion of the skirt, the waistband of the trousers being permanently fastened in front to the waistband of the skirt and the trousers having the upper rear part thereof fashioned into a perpeudioularly-folding flap, and means on the flap to detachably engage complemental means on the waistband of the trousers, as set forth.

SARAH A. \VIIAN.

Witnesses JoHN T. CANAVAN, Jon BECKER. 

